Is the Tunny Club still running?

Wouldn't it be great to see these caught off the British coast again ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-28285702

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big-game_tunny_fishing_off_Scarborough

This bit in the Mail on Line had me laughing,

"The fish was at first believed to be a yellowfin tuna and a local fisherman was allowed to take it away to cut up and use as bait."


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Notbad wrote:

"cut up and use as bait"

I'd have used it whole   

We have Pacific blue fin tuna off the west coast of New Zealands south island in the winter, usually caught when deep sea trawlers are lifting their nets. A similar size to the Scarborough ones. A bit out of my financial league.
Further south off Fiordland they get Southern Blue fin about 100 lb average.
We used to have a summer yellow fin fishery but it has been hammered by pacific longliners and drift nets and are rarely caught now.
Plenty of Albacore and Skipjack offshore in the summer around 6 to 10 lb, good fun if you can get out.
Interesting about the ones caught off Ireland, probably more there if more effort was put in.